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Judge Rules Inmate Wrongly Imprisoned

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published November 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM EDT

A Franklin County judge has ruled a man who spent seven years on death row for committing two murders in 1984 was wrongfully imprisoned.79-year-old Dale Johnston was convicted of killing his stepdaughter and her fiance in Hocking County. He was freed in 1990, but needed the ruling to seek monetary damages from the state.
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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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